X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/unhappybirthday/blobdiff_plain/405d7facf940435ee9c7e19085e84d6d45d61e7d..6e8838cb11f692c0979a2d02a5af5794626ef6cb:/index.html diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 640251d..51e0e05 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ copyright status, check out these resources:

  • Snopes' article on the legal status of Happy Birthday
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  • Boycott-RIAA's -article on Happy Birthday and copyright
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  • Great +article on Happy Birthday and copyright by Kembrew McLeod
  • Kuro5hin's @@ -84,6 +84,16 @@ hear.
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    Update: This +article by law professor Robert Brauneis has raised some important +questions about the history of Happy Birthday. That said, copyright in +the song continues to be enforced and Warner Brothers continues to +collect more than $2 million each year in royalities. Until we hear a +judge rule on Brauneis's suggestions, we'll continue to give Warner and +the market the benefit of the doubt.

    + +

    Is Singing Happy Birthday in Public Really Copyright Infringement?

    @@ -167,7 +177,7 @@ infringement:

    Dear ASCAP,
     
    -The copyright status of "Happy Birthday To You" and and the law
    +The copyright status of "Happy Birthday To You" and the law
     related to public performances of copyrighted works have recently been
     brought to my attention. I am very concerned by the public's apparent
     disregard for copyright law demonstrated by rampant infringement of
    @@ -212,9 +222,9 @@ Birthday.

    href="http://www.cafepress.com/unhappybirthday">official Unhappy Birthday store.

    -

    You can get in contact with our leadership by emailing our -copyrighteous spokesman — Benjamin Mako Hill — at mako@atdot.cc

    +

    Our president is Raymond Ty. You can get in contact with our +leadership by emailing our copyrighteous spokesman — Benjamin Mako +Hill — at mako@atdot.cc